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to: Murray Lesser
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-11-28 20:05:20
subject: Small programs

Murray Lesser wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

JA>Now Jack, you'll have someone start a thread about "how small was
  >that program I wrote way back when...." 

 ML>    I vote for David Noon's 1998 TELLBOOT "external function"
 ML> for OS/2 REXX, written in assembly language.  The DLL file
 ML> is 619 bytes. 

JS>I vote for OSTSR, the OS/2 Time Slice Releaser also written in ASM
  >by Jay Clegg.  It takes up just 336 bytes of memory.

 ML> measure it, but (as a DOS program) the memory used would be
 ML> 144 bytes.  But Roy beat us both with his 7-byte  program.

Somehow I missed Roys message, I had to go back and find it.  

I guess he wins a Fist Full of Chipped Ham, the standard 1st place prize given 
at Jack's Free Lunch:-)

                                              Jack 
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